Lake Biograd
A glacial lake at 1,094 m in old forest.
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Biogradska Gora is a national park on the Bjelasica massif in northern Montenegro, between the Tara and Lim rivers. It covers about 56 square kilometres, with Crna Glava (2,139 m) its highest peak. At its heart, a strictly protected reserve of virgin forest, one of Europe's last, surrounds Lake Biograd, and the park is part of UNESCO's Tara River Basin biosphere reserve. Protection dates from 1878, when the Kolašin area passed to Montenegro. Tradition holds that the Morača and Rovca clans gave the forest to Prince Nikola, later King Nikola I, who banned felling there. It became a national park in 1952. Beech, fir, maple and ash lead more than 86 species of trees and shrubs, some over 40 m tall. In December 2025 Montenegro proposed adding the reserve to the World Heritage site of Europe's primeval beech forests. Lake Biograd lies at 1,094 m, about 870 m long and up to 12.1 m deep. A path of about 3.5 km circles the shore, and rowing boats, kayaks and bicycles are for hire beside a visitor centre and restaurant. Almost 80 km of marked trails cross the park, whose five smaller glacial lakes, including Pešića and Ursulovačko, lie as high as 1,895 m. The entrance and ticket point is at Kraljevo Kolo on the Kolašin–Mojkovac road, about 17 km by road from Kolašin, and a 3 km asphalt road leads on to the lake. No reliable public transport goes up, so come by car or taxi. Morača Monastery lies about 22 km south-west and the Đurđevića Tara Bridge about 37 km north-west, as the crow flies.
A glacial lake at 1,094 m in old forest.
Beech, fir and maple protected since 1878.
Five smaller lakes along marked trails.
Lake Biograd, off the Kolašin–Mojkovac road, Kolašin municipality
Nature is left to itself: felling, clearing fallen trunks and planting are all banned. The protection began with Prince Nikola's ban on cutting in 1878 and was reinforced by Montenegro's 1978 national parks law, which also outlawed hunting.
Yes, but only in designated places: a tent pitch in the seasonal camping zone by the lake costs EUR 3 a day, and a daily sport-fishing permit for Lake Biograd EUR 20 per person, per the park's official price list. The lakeside zone has no toilets or other facilities of its own.